Rowan & I have been laughing about this since we stumbled upon it. We showed it to A last night and he agrees, its very funny.

Yesterday, Adam, Rowan & I went to the zoo. Took lots of pics, which can be found here. Some of my favorites include:

I mentioned that I found the style of coronet I wanted at Pennsic. Still need to either order one or commission one. Anyway, here are the pics of it:

Garbo learned a new trick – to use her curly tail to balance things…

• New cookbook blog post: Capellini Cake with Carmalized Onions http://bit.ly/15H3Wj #

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OK, brain trust…

I have two dead systems at home and need to increase my storage capacity… this leaves me a few options…

Option One
Try to piece together a single working system with parts I have from the two I have, plus duct tape etc. The newest of these systems dates back to 2006 and has a sempron processor – not a big deal as I am primarally interest in storage, but its old tech.And a fair bit of work as I try and figure out whats working and what isn’t not to mention unknown expense.

Option Two
On CraigsList I found a Buffalo TeraStation Home Server NAS, with four drive bays and two 250GB HDDs already in it. I have two 320GB IDE drives that can be pulled from the dead systems and put in the new system. This would give me just over 1TB of storage. However, its old tech still using IDE drives, that particular NAS does not have that great reviews, and I will have filled up all the open bays.

Option Three
New Egg has the D-Link DNS-321 for $120 with a $30 mail in rebate from D-Link. It is only two drive bays, but they are SATA. I can get a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB drive for $84, making final cost $174 after the mail in rebate. And this would give me an open bay for further expansion.

EDIT: This NAS has excellent reviews and is apparently extremely hackable. Also, I found a SAMSUNG EcoGreen 1TB drive for $80 brining the overall cost down to $170 after rebate.
EDIT 2: A good summary of how to and the hacks is here.

Option Four
Build a new system. Really, this is the same as option one, as I want to keep costs down.

So, thoughts?

OK, So I have changed from using the Live+Press plug into cross post to LJ from my Word Press blog, to using JournalPress.

I have done this for a variety of reasons. First, JournalPress worked better for posting to a community from Lukas & my cookbook blog which is mirrored to LJ here.

Second, JournalPress provides more granular security controls. When I post a private entry in WP, I wanted it to post Friends Only to LJ. Live+Press would not let me do that, but JournalPress does. And that was what I wanted.

So, this is a bit of a test post to see how things go…

Edit… ok, I screwed up… links are now fixed.

I can’t decide if this is weird or cool – perhaps both?

Warning – may be NSFW

Yesterday at lunch, a group of us are sitting together and M comes and joins us with a meatball sub. She is taking it out of the wrapper and one of the meatballs starts to fall. She catches it and as she does so says ‘I lost my poor meatball.’

Now, M is Canadian and had a *very* puzzled look when I commented that no one sneezed. The entire table then broke out into a chorus of ‘On Top of Spaghetti’ further confusing and amusing the Canadian among us.

This then prompted B to ask how, prior to the internet age and forwarded emails, viral videos, etc. things like On Top of Spaghetti became as ubiquitous as they did. We all paused for a moment as we considered this, and then the conversation moved on.

Any thoughts?